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Discover Ludwig"shuffling of papers" is correct and usable in written English
It is a common phrase used to describe the sound or action of moving papers around or rearranging them. Example: The meeting came to a standstill as everyone in the room began shuffling their papers and searching for the necessary documents.
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"I've just got to do something …" are Julia Holter's distracted first words tonight, accompanied by a shuffling of papers across the top of her keyboard.
Even the word used for disarmament -- decommissioning -- sounds more like the shuffling of papers than the surrender of guns, but that did not take the sting out of the issue.
Moderator Lester Holt's mic was on, so there was a lot of shuffling of papers and occasional chatting.
This was followed by an, "Oh my!" and a frantic shuffling of papers.
Answers such as "because they don't know whether they want to go into a home yet and are wobbly on their feet" are greeted with furrowed brows and a shuffling of papers.
In his cot by the window, he gazed up at the wedged plaster of the ceiling, listening to the soft breath of the wind outside, and the absence of his mother, which had a sound all its own — no quiet shuffling of papers or clink of coffee cups, no sliding of the liquor-cabinet door.
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All that trading – that "shuffling of paper" as Lord Mandelson recently dismissed it – is meant to make it cheaper for companies to raise money and safer for savers to store it away.
What's eliminated is wasted motion: the shuffling of paper, the sharpening of pencils, the setting up of shots.
And after a brief shuffle of papers, a signed receipt showed that the courier had received the county's certified results: 97,304 votes for Mr. Gore, 82,357 for George W. Bush.
I could see the back of the head of her to whom his love poems were addressed — and from time to time between poems I could hear the shuffle of papers and the sounds of their two voices as he bent forward to discuss something briefly.
"Every day I see HR1s [statutory redundancy notices] like these," he said, shuffling sheets of paper and reading out: "150 at Petrofac, 90 at Sparrows, 70 at Gulfmark, 60 at ConocoPhillips... " Molloy said that along with those actually losing their livelihoods, almost everyone is having their terms and conditions changed.
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